The Shemwell Family

Robert Lee HankinsAge: 69 years19061975

Name
Robert Lee Hankins
Given names
Robert Lee
Surname
Hankins
Birth 1906

Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 10 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 11 years)

Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
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Spanish Influenza Epidemic
1918 (Age 12 years)

Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 23 years)

Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
MarriageVella Lucille SouthView this family
after 1940 (Age 34 years)

Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 35 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 44 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 40 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death 1975 (Age 69 years)

Family with Vella Lucille South - View this family
himself
wife
Vella Lucille South
Birth: October 11, 1908 28 19Mississippi, United States
Death: December 1977Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: after 1940
Curtis Ezra Boykin + Vella Lucille South - View this family
wife’s husband
Curtis Ezra Boykin
Birth: August 6, 1905Mississippi, United States
Death: July 1987Bay Springs, Jasper, Mississippi, United States
wife
Vella Lucille South
Birth: October 11, 1908 28 19Mississippi, United States
Death: December 1977Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States
Marriage: estimated 1925
3 years
step-daughter
Jean Carmen Boykin
Birth: July 27, 1927 21 18Mississippi, United States
Death: February 26, 2009Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States

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